Fitting Commando Airfilter

Beach said:

This is the way I figured to do mine...Mount both front and rear air filter plates....From the timing side push the front plate forward as much as possible(the rubber boots will compress quite a bit)...Slip filter and mesh screen into place and release the front plate...Make sure filter and screen are in place and replace the bolts...

I had lots of bleeding before I figured this out...Luckily there was a blood bank close...

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Best way I have found to do it

Never had a real problem. Shove the front plate with boots on way up on carbs. Tilt the bottom towards the front. Shove the filter in. May be that I have a slightly narrower filter as I found a Fram circular air filter that I bend to make work.

It's easy. I just offer up the pancake filter to my Mikuni and tighten the screw. Don't know why you guys are making such a big deal of it.

Getting ready to slap the carbs and ham can on the Titanic, so this thread has been very inforrmtative. The SS clone, it all it's iterations, never had a ham can, so this is new to me. It had Uni foam sock filters when I bought it in '73.

Mk11A and MK111 plastic airbox fitting of new soft rubbers is simple enough yet fiddly. I too use a little Armor-all spray to make things slipperier. There is a flat cut on each one that should be positioned centrally ,that's obvious. By the way..the plastic airbox type are molded thicker than previous ones , yet will not fit earlier ham can models. The filter side has a gap that is too wide for earlier metal yet fits the thicker plastic.

Be sure to put a piece of heavy cardboard on top of the primary cases so the cage doesn't gouge if. I know this.... It helps to squeeze it a bit too and then reshape slightly to fit inside the airbox all around.

Russ

DogT said:

Re: Fitting Commando Airfliter

My procedure is to install the carbs last, or if they're on, take them off including manifold, install air filter and then install carbs. Takes time, but less grief. I've never been able to do otherwise and it prevents lost tools from throwing them across the county.

Dave
69S

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Just did that over the weekend, works lke a charm.
John in Texas

I siliconed the rubbers to the plate, making sure all excess was wiped off before leaving to cure for a day. I also filed the spiked side of the mesh edge so both were now smooth.

I was certainly having a lot of trouble when I first looked for answers on how to fit the air filter, but now having removed and fitted it so many times, I can now do it with my eyes closed Ha Ha.
Burgs

It's really funny how many ways there are to do simple job. Of course simple is an understatement in the case of the air filter and boots.

I cut the lid out of a can (probably refries, I suppose the workshop manual would specify navy or baked bean(z) can lids be used) and put a smear of rubber friendly grease on it. I hold it over the face of the mounted air cleaner to keep the boot from getting hung up in its hole. Then I just work it on to the carb, slide out the slickened can lid and the boot practically seats itself in the filter face. Seems like I take carbs off more than I do the air filter so I solved it looking from the other side I guess. I never liked dragging the filter in and out with the boots mounted.

Russ

Hi
Yes I recon carbs out and in is easy, I like the silicone spray as well, but also find not so hard anymore with carbies on, biggest problem here is getting the mesh located correctly on both back and front plates, just steady as you go.

Burgs